Women's Literature: Directed Study
Texts (a brainstormed list of possibilities to be narrowed down later)
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Emma, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bronte
In Search of our Mother's Gardens, Alice Walker
Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
Memoirs of a Beatnik, Diane DiPrima
Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larson
The Red Tent, Anita Diamont
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
Black and Blue, Anna Quindlen
The Power of Sympathy, Catharine Maria Sedgwick or Carla Mulford
The Coquette, Hannah Webster Foster
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Piano (film)
'night Mother, Marsha Norman (film)
"I Stand Here Ironing," Tillie Olsen
"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Selection from The Feminine Mystique, Bette Frieden
Selected essay(s) by Gloria Steinem
Poetry: Sharon Olds, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath
Other works by Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Doris Lessing
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